Earlier this week, we covered the former North Carolina Tar Heels taking part at the CONCACAF W Championship, trying to help their national teams qualify for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup and the 2024 Olympics. While that’s the important event for the USWNT and most of the soccer fans in the US, there is arguably an even bigger women’s soccer national team tournament that also recently got underway.
Across the pond, the 2022 Women’s European Championship got underway on Wednesday with England beating Austria 1-0. While, for obvious reasons, the USWNT has been the national team that’s most had a UNC flavor over the years, there has been a share of international players to come through Chapel Hill.